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Gregory Brown
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Social history of ideas, democratic political culture, knowledge transfer. Dept of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Voltaire Foundation, Unviersity of Oxford.
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New on the blog: Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley explore the lasting impact of the "Black Legend" - the narrative of Spain and its empire as cruel and intolerant - examining its historical roots, and modern debates on colonialism and memory. Read more: bit.ly/4b1Zf2q @voltaire.ox.ac.uk #c18
‘The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century’ by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley
The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities, edited by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley, has recently been published in the Oxf…
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February 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Created in partnership with the Voltaire Foundation, the Eighteenth-Century Studies collection now offers over 700 volumes from the foremost series in Enlightenment studies. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @oxunienl.bsky.social

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March 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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New to the series: 'La Société littéraire de Lausanne' by @damianobardelli.bsky.social is the first book on the Lausanne Literary Society. Purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/La-Soci%C3%A... #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk
The image is a promotional graphic for the book La Société littéraire de Lausanne: Sociabilité et débats de réforme by Damiano Bardelli, published as part of the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The book cover is displayed on the right side, featuring a historical illustration of a group of men gathered around a table in discussion, with a blue title banner. The left side of the image contains bilingual text in French and English: "Une étude détaillée des pratiques et des débats de la Société littéraire de Lausanne." "A detailed study of the practices and debates of the Lausanne Literary Society." At the bottom, logos of Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, and the Voltaire Foundation. The background is a faded version of the illustration on the book cover.
March 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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New to the series | Jozef Ignác Bajza, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences, edited by Dobrota Pucherová and Erika Brtáňová. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/first-slovak... #EighteenthCentury 📖
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Promotional image for the English translation of the first Slovak novel, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences by Jozef Ignác Bajza. The image features the book cover on the right, which includes a medieval-style illustration of several figures and an angel. The left side of the image has a decorative angel blowing a trumpet and text stating: "The first translation into another language of the first Slovak novel, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences, published in 1783–1785." Logos at the bottom include Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Voltaire Foundation.
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Many thanks to @roydipiazza.bsky.social for a generous review of 'The Process of Enlightenment' @oxunienl.bsky.social! 'A landmark contribution to the fields of intellectual history and Enlightenment studies [...] timely, nuanced, and rich addition to current debates'.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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New on the blog | Denys Van Renen, author of 'The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice', urges scholars and readers of the picaresque to rediscover it as a key genre for the environmental humanities. Read the post on the LUP blog: bit.ly/3F2dOHM #environmentalhumanities #c18 🍃
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May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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New to the series | Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon, by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/AntoineLasalle #EighteenthCentury 📖
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Promotional image for the book Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon: Politiques de la science sous la Révolution et l’Empire by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The book cover, shown on the right, features a cropped reproduction of the painting 'The Death of Chatterton' ( by; after Edward Orme; Henry Singleton, 1794. © National Portrait Gallery, London) depicting the tragic death of the young poet Thomas Chatterton. In the image, Chatterton lies lifeless in a garret, with a woman and child entering the scene in distress. On the left side, promotional text for the book in italic reads: “The life and work of an eighteenth-century translator and an account of the reception of his translation of Francis Bacon.” Publisher logos for Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, and the Voltaire Foundation appear at the bottom.
May 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Just came on to wish @paulecohen.bsky.social and #Psg good luck on Saturday
May 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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68 teams in this tournament and only three of them have Jewish head coaches. Two of the three punched their tickets to the Final Four today and the other can do it tomorrow. I'm verklempt. And Lindsay Gottlieb and USC advanced to the Elite 8 on the women's side. No wonder UNLV hired Josh Pastner.
March 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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This Wednesday March 5 at 3:30 in @unlv.edu Greenspun Hall, please join the Dept of History for a discussion with internationally acclaimed journalist and historian Yardena Schwartz, of her critically acclaimed book, "Ghosts of a Holy War" Reserve seats and parking here tinyurl.com/YardenaUNLV
March 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Pretty much everything they say about immigrants today they said about your grandparents and great-grandparents.

Support and defend immigrants today like they’re your own grandparents.
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ALT: a group of people are sitting at a table and one of them is saying hey i 've seen this one .
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February 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Why were Newton's theories so controversial in 18th-century Berlin? Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet talks at our Enlightenment Workshop on the reception of Newton in the Berlin Academy: Wednesday 26 Feb, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
February 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Read our newest blog: VF Director Nicholas Cronk on 50 years of Voltaire Room at the @tayoxford.bsky.social ! #18C

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The Voltaire Room after fifty years: celebrating the Besterman Bequest
The Voltaire Room in the Taylor Institution opened its door to readers exactly fifty years ago. Here is the story… Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) established the Voltaire Foundation to carry out ma…
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January 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Robespierre speaks: Colin Jones (QM London/U Chicago) on the revolutionary’s writings and political theory — Wednesday (29 Jan), 5pm, Magdalen College. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
January 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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I’ve spent many a happy hour down in the Voltaire room at the @tayoxford.bsky.social - it’s a great place to work.
January 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I get the emails now, so it's probably past time to note that I have recently joined the advisory boards of:
- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
- Electronic Enlightenment

And the editorial board of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
December 2, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Glad to announce that the manuscript of our volume Enlightenment at Court (ed. together with Thomas Biskup, Ben Marschke and Andreas Pecar) has been formally accepted by the editors of the excellent series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OUSE). Thank you!
January 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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#Parution : Bastien, Pascal (dir.). Policing and urban society in eighteenth-century Paris. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment), 2024. ISBN : 9781835536766.
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September 6, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Daniella Gilboa hugging her parents for the first time in 477 days. Welcome home 💛
January 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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UNlV Holocaust Remembrance Day observation and discussion of genocide education : bit.ly/UNLVHRD25
January 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A busy synagogue in Melbourne, Australian was firebombed last night, leaving two injured with burns.

Jews worldwide are being violently targeted in our sacred spaces. If you’re still silent, you are the problem.
December 6, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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@alonpinkas.bsky.social do you listen to the British podcast @originstorypodcast.bsky.social ? Their most recent 2 part episode is on the life and career of one Benjamin Netanyahu, and it's likely to be of great interest to you.
November 20, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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We were delighted to welcome Ambassador Hélène Duchêne at the VF yesterday!

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Ambassador Hélène Duchêne visits Oxford University
On 18 November 2024, Ambassador Hélène Duchêne received a warm welcome at Oxford University. She met the staff of the Voltaire Foundation and, in the presence of Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey, signed t...
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November 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Mohammad Sinwar is having trouble cementing control over Hamas Gaza. According to Israeli sources he is far weaker in ever way than his brother. Hes only communicating through notes, slowing communications down and won’t leave the tunnels for fear of assassination.
November 16, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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Not enough attention being paid to this:

Trump “won not by picking up large numbers of new voters—it appears he lost voters—but because Democratic voters of color dropped out, perhaps reflecting the new voter suppression laws put into place since 2021.“
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November 13, 2024
Republican senators today elected John Thune of South Dakota to be the next Senate majority leader.
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November 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM